Tina Mari Rucker's work blends filmmaking and painting, delving into themes of identity, history, and human connection. By exploring universal concepts like love, loss, and resilience, she creates work that resonates on an emotional level forging connections with her audience.

Tina is the owner of T. Mari Gallery, showcasing artists from all over the world.

Sitong Yin is primarily a fiber artist, she works around fiber & textile, installations, and performance. Her work explores translations between materials, places, and cultures, and the poetic and spiritual moments revealed in the gaps of translations.
Yin takes images of nature like landscapes and rocks, translating them into weavings, embroidery, paper, etc. responding to the loss of home and landscape in the context of environmental and cultural migration. Yin draws inspiration from Chinese ancient philosophies, art, and poetry for the methodologies of examining emptiness and meaninglessness and explore how they are translated into and respond to contemporary context.

Alex Jarus is an artist and educator who utilizes the language of traditional craft techniques to create sculptural and furniture forms that explore the patchworks of their queer & non-binary identity. Although their dominant area of craft is woodworking, they consider themselves a curator of many techniques and mediums. Even as a contemporary craftspersons, their intentional efforts to abstain from any particular visual epoch, provides a level of escapism into a world of speculative fiction.

Tali is a nonbinary Jewish artist, raised in East Lakeview, Chicago. They are a mixed media painter focusing in fiber arts and weaving. Their work explores the complexities of queerness, sexuality, gender and its aesthetics through drag, fetish, and self portraiture. Their practice is informed by collage and exploring the layers of intersectionality in art, identity, sexuality and existence.

Sabrina Zhao is a Chinese American figurative painter creating a space between the boundaries of the obscured and revealed. Their work alternates between oil paintings that explore self-alienation through color and work that primarily houses drawing material paired with traditional Chinese folklore and painting methodology to contemplate self perception, self understanding, and their position relative to the world.

Mack Baker is a transdisciplinary artist who loves squishy things—bodies, messy line-work, and soft undulating clay. Born and raised in New England, Baker grew up with an affinity for artisan wares and craft pottery and began wheel throwing at a young age. They have developed an installation based practice which spans across drawing, fibers, ceramics, and photography. Baker likes making work about the tender folds and imperfections of the body and how these repeating forms connect us. In their ceramic work they are concerned with the way the clay body breaks down, and fails; intimate moments of collapse become metaphors for the queer body at rest.

Karen Remsen is a Chicago-based artist creating oil and mixed-media paintings. Her work centers on exploring the multifaceted nature of female power and identity. Combining paint with reflective materials, her work also explores the beauty and complexity of light as it moves over a surface and changes throughout the day. Karen is a self-taught artist who rediscovered painting in 2020 after a hiatus of nearly 15 years. She has exhibited across the country in galleries that champion imaginative realism and contemporary figurative work.